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Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__:
[Thread] Twitter suspends accounts of journalists who cover Elon Musk, including WaPo's Drew Harwell, NYT's Ryan Mac, CNN's Donie O'Sullivan, and Aaron Rupar — Journalists who cover Elon Musk have been suspended on Twitter tonight: @Donie O'Sullivan from CNN, Aaron Rupar and the Washington Post's @drewharwell. Rupar tells me he has “no idea” why it happened.
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Nicole Perlroth / @nicoleperlroth: Any reporters from the new “FREE PRESS” gonna cover Elon's unilateral decision to ban these journalists or nah? @bariweiss @NellieBowles @walterkirn @rupasubramanya @KTmBoyle One week in and you're already failing your own litmus test for “honest, fearless, independent.” https://twitter.com/...
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: This was The Washington Post's @drewharwell's post before he was suspended from Twitter, outlining how Twitter suspended the account of its competitor Mastodon earlier today. https://twitter.com/...
Nick Visser / HuffPost: Twitter Suspends Reporters From WashPost, NYT, Others Who Wrote About Elon Musk
Michael Luciano / Mediaite: DEVELOPING: Twitter Suspends Several Reporters Who Cover Elon Musk in Thursday Night Massacre
Marc Andreessen / @pmarca: Overheard in Silicon Valley: “The woke defense of free speech arrives in 3, 2, ...”
Oliver Darcy / CNN: Elon Musk's Twitter bans accounts of CNN, NYT, WaPo journalists
Mitchell Clark / The Verge: Elon Musk starts banning critical journalists from Twitter
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: Here's @keitholbermann's last tweet before he was suspended from Twitter. https://twitter.com/...
@mmasnick@mastodon.social: Talking to former Twitter trust & safety folks... and they note that *normally* under existing policy …
J.D. Capelouto / Semafor: Twitter is suspending several tech journalists who cover Elon Musk
Jason Hirschhorn / @jasonhirschhorn: Dangerous. So dangerous. Not reckless. It was intended. But terrible. Horrific.
Sam Stein / @samstein: Reporters who cover Twitter at the NYT, CNN and WaPo, along with a few others, have seen their accounts on Twitter suspended tonight. Appears to be either a purge of tech journos who report on Musk, or a gambit by Musk to create buzz. or both
Max Tani / @maxwelltani: In a statement, the New York Times says the Twitter suspension of Ryan Mac and other journalists is “questionable and unfortunate.” https://twitter.com/...
Linette Lopez / @lopezlinette: .@elonmusk has always been vicious to anyone sharing info about his businesses. He once sued a source of mine for revealing shady practices at #Tesla, and security testified that Musk had his lackeys hack my source's personal devices. https://twitter.com/...
Michael Edison Hayden / @michaelehayden: Elon Musk's Twitter nuked the antifascist news website It's Going Down — I look forward to the free speech substack people jumping in to get mad about this one: https://twitter.com/...
Luke Zaleski / @zaleskiluke: @oneunderscore__ ... The world's richest man has taken possession of a global social media platform used by the world's journalists, scientists, governments, private citizens, businesses, religions, militaries and health/emergency services to share all vital information—It's going as you might expect
Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing: Top journalists banned from Twitter without notification or explanation—and Mastodon's account is gone too.
@jaspar: what's ironic is tonight is the most that m@stodon has ever felt like a true twitter replacement. i'm over there following events and it's lit
@tomjumbogrumbo: It appears my regular account @keitholbermann has been limited or suspended as well - no notice, nothing - after defending Rupar, Mac, Harwell, Donie Hilariously I can still RT, evidently https://twitter.com/...
Melissa Gira Grant / @melissagira: A few weeks ago @micahflee reported on the extremely selective suspensions on Twitter https://theintercept.com/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@elivalley: Too many suspensions going on so just to be safe: I respect, admire, and strive to emulate Elon Musk, Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss.
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: Meanwhile.. here's @bariweiss today: “To hear Musk tell it, his motivation is obvious: It's about saving the world.” https://www.thefp.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Not that he cares but it is time for a letter of protest from journalism organizations to Musk for killing accounts of journalists: @atrupar, @Donie O'Sullivan of CNN, @drewharwell of the Washington Post, @mattbinder of Mashable, and the list of Musk's attacks keeps growing.
Kevin Collier / @kevincollier: Add Micah Lee from the Intercept (@micahflee@infosec.exchange, fyi) to the list. Interestingly, I tweeted out the link to the forbidden Mastodon account yesterday and am still alive. Click it and you see this. https://twitter.com/...
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: Political pundit @keitholbermann has been suspended by Twitter. He had been tweeting critically of Elon Musk.
Kevin Collier / @kevincollier: Five tech journalists (and counting), three from major mainstream outlets. Also the account for Mastodon, which I consider the current Twitter alternative. Archived link shows it had tweeted its own Elon jet plane link earlier today: https://archive.vn/UM4bp https://twitter.com/...
Ashley Feinberg / @ashleyfeinberg: this is insane but also god he's such a fucking baby https://twitter.com/...
@yashar: Aaron Rupar shared this screenshot with me. This is what he sees when he logs in. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Steve Herman / @w7voa: Also now banished from #Twitter: Former @voxdotcom journalist @atrupar. He did tweet Wednesday: “I used a blurry still of Elon getting booed on stage with Chappelle instead of a photo on this post because I'm sick of seeing his face all over Twitter.” https://web.archive.org/...
Steve Herman / @w7voa: Let's rewind the tape: https://twitter.com/...
@mmasnick@mastodon.social: FWIW, I've also reviewed Aaron Rupar's twitter feed on @internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org …
Aric Toler / @arictoler: This is like that day that all the QAnon accounts got banned, but for tech reporters. Ryan Mac is suspended too. https://twitter.com/...
Bradley P. Moss / @bradmossesq: Elon is banning the press from Twitter. https://twitter.com/...
David Corn / @davidcorndc: This is a funny definition of free speech absolutism. https://twitter.com/...
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: Texts from an unknown sender, from discovery in the Elon Musk/Twitter suit months ago. Pretty remarkable to read after these suspensions of journalists tonight. https://twitter.com/...
Sean T. Collins / @theseantcollins: @oneunderscore__ @RMac18 they just nuked @mattbinder too.
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Tech industry groups that include Meta and Google ask SCOTUS to overturn the Texas social media content moderation law, arguing it violates the First Amendment — Trade groups that represent Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google said they asked the US Supreme Court to overturn …
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Rebecca Kern / Politico: Tech trade groups petition SCOTUS on Texas social media law
Tim Peterson / Digiday:
Five agency executives say Netflix is delivering ~80% of the expected viewers for its ad-supported tier and structured its ad deals to release any unspent money — For as quickly as Netflix brought its ad-supported tier to market, the streamer's advertising business is off to a slow start.
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Marisa Dellatto / Forbes: Netflix Reportedly Isn't Meeting Viewership Expectations For Some Advertisers
Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter: Netflix Shares Sink After Report of Weaker Ad Demand
Matt Tamanini / The Streamable: Netflix Is Reportedly Refunding Advertiser Money; Is Ad-Tier Underdelivering Subscriber Growth?
Dr Augustine Fou / @acfou: well, that is honest of them (Netflix didn't go out and buy a bunch of fake traffic to juice the numbers so they could “deliver in full” like ahem, other adtech companies) Netflix lets advertisers take their money back after missing viewership targets https://digiday.com/...
Eileen AJ Connelly / The Wrap: Netflix Stock Tumbles on Concerns About Slow Growth for Ad-Supported Tier
Lucia Moses / @lmoses: scooped by the great @petersontee - here's some more details from me, including how Netflix is dropping ad rates, what's coming up that could help advertisers meet their campaign goals https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Mike Shields / @digitalshields: What's odd to me is that Netflix doesn't seem to have done a big marketing push for its ad supported offering, at least that I've seen https://twitter.com/...
@ortex: “They can't deliver. They don't have enough inventory to deliver. So they're literally giving the money back,” said an advertising agency exec, according to @Digiday. https://digiday.com/...
Adam Seaborn / @ahbseaborn: You'd never see a TV network do this Typically they “guarantee to 90%” and if they miss they'll “makegood” later in the year In TV you NEVER give back the upfront money https://digiday.com/...
@modestproposal1: “They can't deliver. They don't have enough inventory to deliver. So they're literally giving the money back,” https://twitter.com/...
Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life: Netflix often brags about how each of their hits got a box office hit level of viewership. Yet they have had to return money to advertisers because their views are too low to hit the minimum viewership guarantees they made to said advertisers. https://twitter.com/...
@tvgrimreaper: Amazon hasn't delivered 80% of the audience they promised (12.5 million) for Thursday Night Football, but they're keeping the money and doing make goods like TV networks. https://twitter.com/...
Jill Goldsmith / Deadline: Netflix, Disney, WBD Shares Dive With Broader Market As Slow Retail Sales, High Interest Rates Fuel Recession Fears
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Some Washington Post employees say they are outraged at publisher Fred Ryan's handling of a layoff announcement and refusal to take questions at a staff meeting — New York CNN — — Staffers at The Washington Post are livid at publisher Fred Ryan. — That's according to conversations …
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Dylan Byers / Puck: Post Apocalyptic — A brutally awkward town hall amplified long-simmering anxieties within …
@froomkin: “Some of the biggest names in the Washington Post newsroom joined the newspaper guild” today after Fred Ryan announced that layoffs are coming and refused to take questions from staffers. https://twitter.com/...
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
The Washington Post plans to cut “a single digit percentage” of its workforce in Q1 2023; Fred Ryan told staff that new hires mean the newsroom will not shrink
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Semafor, @anniegowen, Washington Post, @charlottetklein, @jacob_brogan, Digiday, New York Times, Axios, @markberman, The Hill, Insider, The Guardian, @sarafischer, American Press Institute, @oliverdarcy, @juddlegum, @unsubtledesi, Poynter, @christinapushaw, Vanity Fair, @carlosnyt, @froomkin, @myhlee, @passantino, @schmidtsam7, @elonmusk, @chris__richards, @thehungryhutch, @vahn16, @jason, @schmittnyc, @libcasey, @abeaujon, @benmullin, @oliverdarcy, @oliverdarcy, @mcbyrne, @dctello, @caitjgibson, @fenitn, @wesleylowery, @blackamazon, Breitbart, The Wrap, New York Post, Mediaite, The Daily Beast, Deadline, Boing Boing, MediaPost and @oliverdarcy
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Annie Gowen / @anniegowen: NEW: @washingtonpost publisher Fred Ryan refuses to take staff questions after announcing Q1 layoffs in “Town Hall” @postguild https://twitter.com/...
Charlotte Klein / @charlottetklein: In the final minutes of today's town hall, WaPo publisher Fred Ryan announced there'd be layoffs coming and then fled the room. As one staffer put it to me: “Could you get worse internal PR than this?” https://www.vanityfair.com/...
Jacob Brogan / @jacob_brogan: The exit music at the end of The Washington Post's town hall today—at which our publisher announced impending layoffs next year—was “Good Vibrations.” Sir, I regret to inform you that the collective vibrations are not, in fact, good.
Kayleigh Barber / Digiday: Media Briefing: How The Athletic used the World Cup as a kick off for its advertising business
Mark Berman / @markberman: the publisher of the @washingtonpost announced that the paper will be laying people off soon, then walked out without taking a single question https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill: Washington Post to conduct layoffs in coming year
Britney Nguyen / Insider: VIDEO: Washington Post staffers shouted at the CEO after he announced layoffs but refused to say who will get the boot
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian: Washington Post chief announces job cuts - and refuses to answer questions
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: .@washingtonpost confirms cuts after leaked video of tense town hall —Comes amid tensions over business strategy and vision —Wapo won't be profitable this year —Too early to see if big investments in climate, wellness will pay off —Unclear subs strategy https://www.axios.com/...
American Press Institute: OFF THE TOP — You might have heard: Twitter is shutting down newsletter platform Revue …
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: News: The Washington Post will conduct layoffs in the coming year, publisher Fred Ryan told staffers in a town hall, sources tell me. Ryan indicated the cuts will be in the single-digits of the workforce. He also said total headcount will not shrink by end of next year.
Nupur J Sharma / @unsubtledesi: ‘More job cuts next year’: WaPo announces layoffs post losing 500k subscribers in a year, employees outraged as publisher refuses to answer questions It is unclear if WaPo will continue to pay authors like Rana Ayyub, who are not regular contributors. https://www.opindia.com/...
Angela Fu / Poynter: Washington Post to conduct layoffs in early 2023
Christina Pushaw / @christinapushaw: I can't feel sorry for anyone who cheered for people to lose their jobs over insane policies like lockdowns and vaccine mandates. Unfortunately, many Washington Post journalists spent the last 3 years doing that. What goes around comes around. https://twitter.com/...
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair: “Democracy Dies in Darkness, Huh?”: Washington Post Publisher Stuns Newsroom With Layoff Bombshell—And Hasty Exit
Carlos Lozada / @carlosnyt: All my love and support to my wonderful former colleagues in the @washingtonpost newsroom: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@froomkin: “This behavior is unacceptable from any leader, but especially the leader of a news organization whose core values include transparency and accountability,” @PostGuild said in a statement. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Michelle Ye Hee Lee / @myhlee: Washington Post publisher Fred Ryan walked out of the meeting after dozens of employees raised their hands and peppered him with questions. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jon Passantino / @passantino: Washington Post Guild blasts publisher Fred Ryan's “unceremonious announcement of layoffs at today's so-called town hall” and refusal to take questions. “This behavior is unacceptable” https://www.cnn.com/...
Samantha Schmidt / @schmidtsam7: After announcing more layoffs, the Washington Post publisher walked out of a town hall meeting. “We have questions,” said @kemettler. Grateful as ever for my fearless friend and for all of our leaders at @PostGuild. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@chris__richards: This is a very accurate picture of what happened inside the Washington Post today https://twitter.com/...
Aaron Hutcherson / @thehungryhutch: Happy two-year work anniversary to me 🫠 https://twitter.com/...
Nathan Grayson / @vahn16: ideally the point of going on book leave is to still have a job when you come back, but I guess we'll see! https://twitter.com/...
@jason: As I mentioned two weeks ago, media companies will be contracting 20-50% in the coming weeks. The mighty Washington Post announced Q1 layoffs & an employee seems to have leaked the contentious video https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Rob Schmitt / @schmittnyc: The woke crybabies reporting at WaPo probably have no idea how businesses work. But when you are in a dying industry, and then abandon journalism and vilify half the country, slashing your customer base... this kinda stuff happens https://twitter.com/...
Libby Casey / @libcasey: Single digit *PERCENTAGE* cut at @washingtonpost which is far more than “single digit cut.” Thanks @oliverdarcy for your reporting! We heard this bomb drop in our “Town Hall,” where management took no Q's. https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Beaujon / @abeaujon: in case you lose your job, here is a salad of buzzwords from Post management https://twitter.com/...
Ben Mullin / @benmullin: The brain drain at The Washington Post in recent months is extensive: https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: The town hall had been hotly anticipated at WaPo after the decision to cut the Sunday magazine. “After brutal layoffs, we want answers about WaPo's future,” The Guild said ahead of the internal event. “Democracy Dies in Darkness, right?” Full story here: https://www.cnn.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: “We are not going to turn this into a grievance session,” publisher Fred Ryan told WaPo employees when peppered with questions after informing staffers of looming cuts. Obviously, this did not go over well. https://twitter.com/...
Darcy Costello / @dctello: Always amazing to me how many media CEOs/executives fail to expect tough questions from ........... reporters https://twitter.com/...
Caitlin Gibson / @caitjgibson: Great reporters ask strong questions. Great leaders answer them. https://twitter.com/...
@fenitn: To my colleagues at the Post and in the industry who aren't in the unions: Power needs to be checked. And an organized workforce is the best check we have against management. https://twitter.com/...
Wesley / @wesleylowery: Fred Ryan is one of most powerful and consequential figures in American political media right now and, to my knowledge, hasn't had a recent profile written about him - a thing i've mentioned to a variety of media reporters for months https://twitter.com/...
@blackamazon: This is after they just didn't report their diversity numbers, so making sure it's not retributive or imbalanced is un possible . But yeah https://twitter.com/...
Jordan Dixon-Hamilton / Breitbart: Washington Post Staffers Outraged After Publisher Refused to Take Questions on Layoffs
Jeremy Bailey / The Wrap: Watch Washington Post Publisher Bristle at ‘Grievance Session for the Guild’ During Town Hall Announcing Layoffs (Video)
Thomas Barrabi / New York Post: Washington Post announces layoffs during tense town hall before publisher Fred Ryan storms out
Jackson Richman / Mediaite: WaPo Town Hall Goes Off the Rails As Publisher Refuses to Take Questions
Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast: Some of WaPo's Star Reporters Join the Union After Shock Layoff News
Carla Sinclair / Boing Boing: The Washington Post announces layoffs, but CEO refuses to answer staff questions at meeting (video)
Ray Schultz / MediaPost: ‘Washington Post’ Is Planning Early 2023 Layoffs
John Ourand / Sports Business Journal:
E.W. Scripps forms Scripps Sports to bid on media rights, maybe including the NWSL, to broadcast matches on ION Media, pay TV, and direct-to-consumer platforms — The E.W. Scripps Co., has emerged as a new bidder for local sports rights, giving MLB, NBA and NHL teams a local broadcast alternative to traditional RSNs.
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Awful Announcing, Sports Media Watch, The Desk, @whague, @ourand_sbj, The Streamable, @skiswm, @ourand_sbj and Radio & Television …
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Joe Lucia / Awful Announcing: E.W. Scripps Co. launches Scripps Sports, is interested in local and national sports rights
Adam Gostomelsky / Sports Media Watch: NCAA President, Scripps Sports, McLaughlin Out, and more
Matthew Keys / The Desk: Newsy, Court TV parent Scripps launching sports division
Bill Hague / @whague: Bold, exciting, and timely move by @asymson and @lawlor_scripps at The E.W. Scripps Company. Spot-on POV from Adam: “The question teams have to ask themselves is what is the platform at the top of the funnel that best allows them... https://www.linkedin.com/... https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/ ...
John Ourand / @ourand_sbj: Scripps already has been negotiating with leagues, teams and conferences. Today, it will announce a new Scripps Sports division, which broadcast veteran Brian Lawlor run as president. https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/ ...
David Satin / The Streamable: E.W. Scripps Company Bidding on Rights to Local Sports Teams as RSNs Falter
@skiswm: @Ourand_SBJ am I reading it correctly-their idea would be almost to go back to the old model and put sports on OTA stations that are not part of the big 4?
John Ourand / @ourand_sbj: @skiswm Essentially, yes.
New York Times:
Leaked emails: VGTRK, Russia's largest state broadcaster, worked with security services to mine right-wing US and Chinese media to craft its Ukraine narrative — Leaked emails detail how Russia's biggest state broadcaster, working with the nation's security services, mined right-wing American news …
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Paul Mozur / @paulmozur: As Russia's invasion of Ukraine stalled, its television propaganda fired on all cylinders. In recent months we went through 1000s of emails from Russia's biggest state broadcaster to learn how. It was a master class in constructing an alternative reality. https://www.nytimes.com/...
David Lazarus / @davidlaz: Fox News has become a Russian propaganda tool https://www.nytimes.com/...
@paulmozur: Tucker Carlson was a favorite. “Don't forget to take Tucker” producers wrote to a state-media journalist in the US, pointing to a clip where Tucker warned how opposing Russia and China could end the dollar's status as a world reserve currency. They often used other clips too: https://twitter.com/...
Bianna Golodryga / @biannagolodryga: “'Be sure to take Tucker,' one Russian news producer wrote to a colleague. The email referred to a clip in which Mr. Carlson described the power of the Chinese-Russian partnership that had emerged under Mr. Biden” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@paulmozur: There's much more in the piece. Domestic Russian television is less seen, but critical to Putin's grip on the Russian population. Even if there are cracks, it is amazing how well the propaganda apparatus has functioned as so much else has fallen apart. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@paulmozur: Each day Russian producers sent incredibly detailed lists of memes and media that could be used to undercut the West. Often that included right-wing cable TV and misleading memes, like this one, showing empty grocery shelves in the US: https://twitter.com/...
Kristofer Harrison / @toferh: Outstanding article @paulmozur. More please. American policymakers need to understand that the Kremlin constantly employs this almost like battlefield tactics to shape U.S. policy. They should *always* ask what Putin is doing to get inside their heads. https://twitter.com/...
@penamerica: How Russia's State TV Spins the Ukraine War: Leaked emails detail how Russia's biggest state broadcaster, working with the nation's security services, mined right-wing American news & Chinese media to craft a narrative that Moscow was winning. Read free: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Borzou Daragahi / @borzou: Leaked emails show how Russian state TV weaponized Tucker Carlson on Fox News to pump out propaganda gullible viewers. “Be sure to take Tucker,” one producer commandes https://www.nytimes.com/...
Adam Satariano / @satariano: We got emails from inside Russia's biggest state broadcaster. It gave a behind-the-scenes peak at how propagandists cynically use U.S. pundits, right-wing social media and Chinese news to spin a counter narrative about the war. w/ @paulmozur @Aaron_Krolik https://www.nytimes.com/...
John Sipher / @john_sipher: “Each day, the Kremlin provides a list of talking points for broadcasters.” Tucker and Tulsi must also receive a copy. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jenny Nordberg / @nordbergj: Fascinating on how Russian state television is using material from Fox News & other “alternative media” hating on Biden to justify and maintain support for war in Ukraine... https://www.nytimes.com/...
Aric Toler / @arictoler: Glad that there is finally more mainstream coverage of the DDOSecrets leaks into VGTRK, the Russian state media giant. Hopefully people look into the other, massive, mostly untouched leaks they have on their site (which I can't link to on Twitter, sorry!) https://www.nytimes.com/...
Matthew Gertz / @mattgertz: The Carlson-Kremlin feedback loop: https://www.mediamatters.org/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Ann Coulter / @anncoulter: Shouldn't the @nytimes Twitter account be suspended for a story based on HACKED DOCUMENTS? cc @nypost <<The data was made publicly available online by DDoSecrets, a group that publishes hacked documents.>> https://www.nytimes.com/...
Clint Watts / @selectedwisdom: Biggest change in Russian propaganda and disinformation since 2014 is they don't make much content anymore. They generally re-purpose American content that suits their objectives. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
A profile of political journalist Ron Brownstein, who works from Los Angeles for The Atlantic and CNN, focusing on long-term patterns instead of daily gossip — The man who is perhaps the sharpest observer of America's political divides lives not in Washington but Los Angeles.
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Neera Tanden / @neeratanden: Well deserved piece on a great thinker, @RonBrownstein Opinion | Why political journalists should imitate Ron Brownstein - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Shane Goldmacher / @shanegoldmacher: I'm all in for praise of Ron Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Ken Rudin / @kenrudin: I've been reading @RonBrownstein for close to 40 years, and there's never been a time where I didn't learn something new. Perry Bacon's superb piece may help introduce Ron's work to the new political junkies out there. But we've known this all along. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Nick Riccardi / @nickriccardi: This is a good piece on @RonBrownstein but one addition — he's always been like this. Famously, he was singled out by Bill Clinton as an example of a rare WH reporter who understood and liked policy and didn't just chase the herd https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Perry Bacon Jr / @perrybaconjr: I wrote about one of my favorite political journalists and what he's doing so well. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Dan Balz / @danbalz: The L.A. journalist making Americans smarter about politics. Well-deserved accolades for @RonBrownstein and his always sharp-eyed and sometimes searing political writing. Via WaPo's @perrybaconjr https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Natalie Jackson / @nataliemj10: One of my favorites writing about another of my favorites - @RonBrownstein is thoughtful, informed (by numbers and not-numbers), and really gets the complexity of our landscape in ways many miss. Btw, Perry is great at this too. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Beucke / @danbeucke: “Covering politics beyond the campaign trail and Capitol Hill, using data, reporting on both policy and electoral considerations, and describing the GOP honestly are all things that political journalists and news organizations can and should embrace."https://www.washingtonpost.com / ...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: “'How would Ronald Brownstein cover this story?' is a question that political journalists should have at the top of their minds. He's doing the job the way it should be done.” I agree. He's not seen as partisan. Not both sides. Not a ‘savvy’ type either. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Borzou Daragahi / @borzou: I still remember the great talks we used to have at @latimes to expand principles of US political coverage to international political coverage. Really smart and generous colleague. https://twitter.com/...
John Nichols / @nicholsuprising: Perry Bacon makes us smarter by explaining how Ron Brownstein makes us smarter. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Sam Wang / @samwangphd: .@RonBrownstein takes data seriously, and places the data in the context of our weird polarized time. Treats the ends of the spectrum differently but fairly. One of the best political journalists working today. https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Freedland / @freedland: Good to see the excellent @RonBrownstein getting the recognition he deserves https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Greg Sargent / @theplumlinegs: A very well-deserved treatment for @RonBrownstein, nicely turned by @perrybaconjr. Via @PostOpinions: https://twitter.com/...
Patrick Gaspard / @patrickgaspard: A great tribute to @RonBrownstein, (One of the most thoughtful political journalists) by @perrybaconjr Brownstein considers data in the context of complicated national stories. He gets that history didn't begin with the latest poll! https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Ronald Brownstein / @ronbrownstein: I really appreciate this exceedingly generous assessment from an important voice who is carving innovative paths of his own and advancing our understanding of this complex and contentious era. Thanks for the kind words-and even more, thanks for work I learn from in every column https://twitter.com/...
Bari Weiss / The Free Press:
Bari Weiss describes sifting through Twitter internal archives using dates and names as search terms and says her team didn't cherry-pick files to fit an agenda — 'I'm not going to spend $44 billion to reinstate a satire blog,' Elon Musk said. ‘I did it because I was worried about the future of civilization.’
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Mediaite, @cvecchiofx, @dustyroseyyc, @alexyablon, @thefp, @jesseltaylor, @bariweiss, @jamesspiro and @semaforben
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Ken Meyer / Mediaite: Bari Weiss Warns Against ‘Handful of Unelected’ Tech Giants Wielding Such Vast Power Over Discourse — Including Elon Musk
@cvecchiofx: This was always one of my main concerns with @elonmusk's purchase of $TWTR. Why wouldn't the CCP leverage his other business interests - say, the $TSLA plant near Shanghai - to quiet dissent abroad? As @victorJ0NES and I have been saying for months, $TSLA has a $TWTR problem! https://twitter.com/...
Dusty Rose / @dustyroseyyc: Musk calls the Twitter he purchased a “non-profit.” Twitter, as it existed, wasn't pursuing net earnings but “social influence,” he said. “This was fundamentally an activist organization.” https://twitter.com/...
Alex Yablon / @alexyablon: if only she'd had the access to elon necessary to actually ask him this question https://twitter.com/...
@thefp: “There is something refreshing about Musk barging into the Twitter Tower on Market Street and turning over the tables. But I'm not sure anyone should have that kind of power.” @bariweiss discusses Elon's takeover, the Twitter Files, and more: https://www.thefp.com/...
@jesseltaylor: This is Weiss revealing how she got access to the “Twitter Files,” and there are so many basic questions left unanswered about this process that I'm shocked she didn't even accidentally ask a relevant question https://www.thefp.com/...
Kristin Robinson / Billboard:
TikTok is helping a new class of music business executives break through and circumvent the notoriously exclusive path that the industry usually requires — The pandemic spurred many young music business hopefuls to join TikTok, now they are some of the industry's most sought-after talents.
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Kristin Robinson / @wordsbykristin: In 2020, at the height of lockdown + layoffs, a # of young music business hopefuls started posting on Tiktok. About 2.5 years later, many are kicking ass! We talk a lot about artists breaking on tiktok but there's music biz folks who've broken here too. https://www.billboard.com/...
Ryan Mac / New York Times:
Twitter updates its private information and media policy with new rules, including suspending accounts “dedicated to sharing someone else's live location” — The suspended accounts include one that followed the private plane of Elon Musk, Twitter's owner.
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Elon Musk / @elonmusk: Any account doxxing real-time location info of anyone will be suspended, as it is a physical safety violation. This includes posting links to sites with real-time location info. Posting locations someone traveled to on a slightly delayed basis isn't a safety problem, so is ok.
@twittersafety: When someone shares an individual's live location on Twitter, there is an increased risk of physical harm. Moving forward, we'll remove Tweets that share this information, and accounts dedicated to sharing someone else's live location will be suspended.
Jared Gans / The Hill: Twitter suspends Mastodon's official account
Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: Twitter just banned prominent journalists who cover Elon Musk with no explanation
@twittersafety: We've updated our Private Information policy to prohibit sharing someone else's live location in most cases. Here's what changed and why. 🧵
Drew Harwell / @drewharwell: @elonmusk ... Here's where it gets really wild. Try to tweet a link to the Musk-jet-tracking account on Instagram. You can't. Twitter blocked it as “potentially harmful.” Again, this is *publicly available data*. But it's about something Musk doesn't want people to see https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@rmac18: This shows doxxing is now just an empty word, devoid of its original meaning. Also I'm interested what “legal action” would look like against a college student who published public information. What did he do that was unlawful? https://twitter.com/...
Joseph De Avila / Wall Street Journal: Twitter Suspends Accounts Sharing Live Locations, Including the Tracker of Elon Musk's Private Jet
Matthew Keys / The Desk: Twitter suspends accounts used by journalists
Boris Epstein / Roar of Sanity: Elon Musk's Twitter suspends Jack Sweeney's account that tracked Musk's private jet travels
Charisma Madarang / Rolling Stone: Elon Musk's Twitter Suspends Rival Mastodon Account
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: So journalists can't say where, say, the president is? Or can't say who is speaking at a live protest or rally? And what does ‘slightly delayed’ even mean? Who defined that? Oh, and last question: do you still consider yourself a ‘free speech absolutist’? https://twitter.com/...
Alex Kirshner / Slate: Elon Musk Has a Growing Tesla Problem
Insider: College student who tracks Elon Musk's jet says he's not concerned about possibly being sued by the billionaire: 'There isn't much ground for him to stand on'
Caleb Ecarma / Vanity Fair: Elon Musk's Commitment to “Free Speech” No Longer Extends to Twitter Account Tracking His Private Plane
Connor Toole / BroBible: Twitter's New Flight Tracking Ban Could Be Bad New For College Football Fans
Ken Macon / Reclaim The Net: Twitter bans @ElonJet account that showed location of Elon Musk's private jet
Chris Vickery / @vickerysec: Tracking a lawfully-required public-broadcast private jet location does not mean the jet's owner is on board. This new policy is fundamentally flawed and suffers from logical fallacy. https://twitter.com/...
@rmac18: Just tried this and Twitter is still blocking people from tweeting links to the ElonJet instagram account. This is the same tactic Twitter used to stop sharing of the New York Post's Hunter Biden story. https://twitter.com/...
Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register: Musk bans private-plane-tracking @Elonjet on Twitter, threatens legal action
Jason Goldman / @goldman: Every paragraph of this story reads like a dispatch from a failed state https://twitter.com/...
Kirsty Harris / @muttley76: @Podolyak_M It's pretty telling that only after this and other accounts were suspended that “twitter safety” retrospectively announced the “rules” were changing. https://twitter.com/...
Faiz Siddiqui / @faizsays: I talked to Jack Sweeney, a Musk fan, right after Musk took over. He didn't think Musk would outright ban him: “I personally think he won't do it because then the news would be all over it and he would be called a hypocrite.” as it turns out... https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
E.W. Niedermeyer / @tweetermeyer: The fact that this kid identifies himself as a Musk fan makes him less sympathetic, not more. This isn't some journalistic hero, this is someone who monetized a billionaire narcissist's toxic personality cult and is now reaping the utterly predictable results. https://twitter.com/...
Molly Knight / @molly_knight: So tweeting about anything that happens live before your eyes is now illegal. No more tweeting from concerts or sporting events. Reporting news or simply making observations on this platform is no longer allowed. https://twitter.com/...
@jason: This is well thought out None of us want to live in a world where someone can persistently stalk individuals in real time That's de facto doxing & it's very dangerous Nicely done @TwitterSafety 👏 👏 👏 https://twitter.com/...
Frank Lesser / @sadmonsters: So just as a hypothetical, say someone is getting booed somewhere—like, I don't know, a live comedy show. Could someone else upload video of the real-life repercussions of that person's $44 billion midlife crisis, or would they have to wait 24 hours? https://twitter.com/...
Dennis Detwiller / @drgonzo123: Please note that according to this, if you take a photo with anyone in it and post it to twitter with location turned on, you can be suspended. As you can see, this is the stupidest decision to date. Impressive, considering how dumb all the previous ones have been. https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Stoeten / @andrewstoeten: “Great pitching matchup going on tonight between [redacted] and [redacted] at [redacted] park!” https://twitter.com/...
Jon Levine / @levinejonathan: You can get Elon on hypocrisy over the the plane account, but it's really hard to argue with this logic more broadly https://twitter.com/...
@meidastouch: This is a lot of words to say El*n's feelings were hurt. Hacks. https://twitter.com/...
Judd Legum / @juddlegum: Not sure who runs this account, but why lie? This change was made because Musk didn't want people posting about where he takes his private jet, even though this information is publicly available. He owns Twitter, so he changed the rules. https://twitter.com/...
Aaron Rupar / @atrupar: By the letter of this policy you could be suspended for tweeting that you ran into a famous person at a restaurant https://twitter.com/...
Keith Edwards / @keithedwards: This is old data from Elon's jet, so it's ok to share. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Chris O'Brien / @obrien: @RMac18 He could force the guy to face some heavy legal fees, even if it's totally frivolous.
Katherine Cross / @quinnae_moon: It's blazingly obvious that this policy change was done almost entirely to justify banning ElonJet because it annoyed the CEO. There were already policies in place to prohibit cyberstalking; this is just a capriciously vague policy that will be exploited to serve the powerful. https://twitter.com/...
@twittersafety: You can still share your own live location on Twitter. Tweets that share someone else's historical (not same-day) location information are also not prohibited by this policy.
@newrepublic: “I mean, fuck this guy,” Jack Sweeney said, referring to Elon Musk about the suspensions of his Twitter accounts using public information to track private jets. “This is ridiculous.” https://newrepublic.com/...
Shannon Bond / @shannonpareil: to be clear, this is the same strategy of link blocking Twitter applied to the NY Post Hunter Biden story in October 2020 that Elon & the Twitter Files disclosures have said was bad https://twitter.com/...
Faiz Siddiqui / @faizsays: NEW: Twitter had previously conducted a review of @ElonJet and determined it didn't violate the company's policies on sharing of private info Despite that, Elon Musk's site permanently suspended it with a new rationale Wednesday https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... w/ @drewharwell
Will Oremus / @willoremus: It's telling which types of “free speech” Elon Musk supports (neo-Nazis) and which he censors (publicly available data about his own private jet). https://twitter.com/...
Chase Woodruff / @dcwoodruff: Once again, as funny as this whole saga has been, it's part of a genuinely alarming antidemocratic moment, led by a tiny class of tech oligarchs who consider themselves immune by divine right from scrutiny and scorn from the rabble, and may well be poised to get their wish. https://twitter.com/...
Batya Ungar-Sargon / @bungarsargon: Months ago, when I was warning conservatives that Elon Musk is not the free speech hero they want him to be, I predicted one of the first things he'd do after buying Twitter would be to ban the kid who uses public information to track Musk's private jet. I regret to inform you... https://twitter.com/...
David Dayen / @ddayen: The other Twitter files, where its whiny owner deliberately blocks information that's personally embarrassing to him https://twitter.com/...
George Hahn / @georgehahn: Meanwhile, it's cool for Elon to unleash a campaign against @yoyoel that has yielded threats against Yoel so severe that he is forced to move. https://www.wsj.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: It sounds like Musk is saying certain speech is dangerous and has the ability to lead to real-world violence. 🧐 https://twitter.com/...
Melissa Gomez / @melissagomez004: The accounts included in this piece, including @CelebJets, @RUOligarchjets and @PutinJet, which were active when this piece was published, appear to also be suspended https://www.wsj.com/...
John Scott-Railton / @jsrailton: Free speech unless you track oligarchs & billionaires. Takeaways: 1️⃣ Twitter is making policy decisions on the fly 2️⃣ In ways that align with Musk's well-known interests Yes this is exactly the critique Elon came in with. https://twitter.com/...
John Scott-Railton / @jsrailton: To be clear: superrich & notorious people face real threats. Reducing exposure of their movements increases their safety. The issue here is: was this new policy, which benefits Musk, conducted with any sort of balancing of collateral impacts on desirable & free speech?
John Scott-Railton / @jsrailton: This is what happens when policy is made & implemented on-the-fly. And tells you everything you need to know about how these decisions are being made. Also, the guy who runs this account is still suspended. https://twitter.com/...
John Scott-Railton / @jsrailton: Looks like @TwitterSafety now has a thread providing some clarifications. But I'm truly not sure how they address most of the cases I've listed. https://twitter.com/...
Ashton Pittman / @ashtonpittman: It changed because the billionaire manchild who owns Twitter is a “free speech absolutist” until it inconveniences him. https://twitter.com/...
@jetcitystar: Hey @TwitterSafety So are businesses that track any boats/ships such as @MarineTraffic in violation of your terms because there's humans onboard operating those vessels? https://twitter.com/...
@cubanjet: DISCLAIMER - In accordance with the new @TwitterSupport policy ( https://twitter.com/... ), this account does NOT report locations of any individuals. It only reports publicly available data broadcast by the aircraft itself. It does not know any passengers or crew aboard.
@evan_greer: So, does this make it against the rules to tweet “I just spotted a Twitter lobbyist at Chuck Schumer's fundraising dinner last night” ? Just curious https://twitter.com/...
@twittersafety: Content that shares location information related to a public engagement or event, such as a concert or political event, is also permitted.
Tim Faulkner / @timoteofaulkner: @TwitterSafety What about non-events that are newsworthy involving a public figure? Is posting a photo of Ted Cruz at the airport fleeing the cold in real-time news or banworthy? How would a tweeter know in advance?
Dan Murphy / @bungdan: See, an unevenly-applied rule to ban accounts urging people to die from a deadly virus or to join an unprecedented violent insurrection against US democracy is anti-free speech. The same rule to protect billionaires from public scrutiny is pro-free speech. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dan Murphy / @bungdan: Less than six weeks ago. This creature is a liar and a four-flusher. All the way down. https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Reese Jones / @politicussarah: Yes. This is why dedicated hate accounts posting children's hospitals is a dangerous policy. medical treatment is not a public event. https://twitter.com/...
Ron Kampeas / @kampeas: This defines incoherent. I can't live tweet a press conference under this policy. I can't report onsite. @elonmusk is turning this always flawed but stop useful site into a veritable s***show. https://twitter.com/...
Donie O'Sullivan / CNN: Twitter suspends account that tracked Musk's private jet, despite billionaire's ‘free speech’ pledge
Katherine Donlevy / New York Post: Musk vows ‘legal action’ against teen who tracks his jet flights on Twitter
Matthewprigge / UPROXX: Elon Musk Is Threatening To Go After A College Student Who Ran A Twitter Account Tracking His Private Jet
Los Angeles Times: Twitter suspends account that monitored Elon Musk's jet after ban; owner's account is also suspended
Sean Buckley / Engadget: Twitter conveniently reveals a location sharing policy amid Elonjet controversy
Tori Otten / New Republic: The College Student Tracking Elon's Jet Had All His Twitter Accounts Suspended
Todd Spangler / Variety: Elon Musk Bans Twitter Account That Tracked His Private Jet, After Claiming He Wouldn't
Joseph Wilkinson / New York Daily News: Elon Musk lashes out at creator of account tracking his private plane
Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap: Elon Musk Blasted as ‘Full-On Hypocrite’ After Twitter Suspends Account Tracking His Jet Use
Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly / Observer: Twitter Suspends @ElonJet, the Account Tracking Musk's Private Flights
Fortune: Twitter just suspended the account that tracked Elon Musk's private jet even after the billionaire promised he wouldn't
Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
Donald Trump sues the Pulitzer Prize board over an allegedly defamatory statement defending awards for stories on Russian interference in the 2016 US elections — Former President Trump sued the Pulitzer Prize board on Wednesday for defamation, arguing a statement by the group that concluded …
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Brian Flood / Fox News: Trump files defamation suit against members of Pulitzer Prize Board for defending ‘debunked’ Russiagate honors
Andrew Oxford / Santa Fe Reporter:
Current and former Gannett employees at Gannett's New Mexico newspapers detail just how disastrous years of layoffs and budget cuts have been — National newspaper behemoth's slashing tactics leave fewer journalist covering New Mexico and readers adrift in their communities
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Diana Alba Soular / @albasoular: As an ex-Gannett reporter (I left in 2019), I saw firsthand rounds of cuts, lay-offs and forced retirements that shrank staffing at the @CrucesSunNews and sister newspapers in southern NM — and how tough it was on journalists. But the company's moves this year are the worst yet. https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Libit / @daniellibit: Really important story about the outsized effect of a newspaper chain's cutbacks in a news desert. My home state of New Mexico is the paradigm of a place that produces such important and amazing stories-if only there were enough reporters to write them. https://twitter.com/...
Heath Haussamen / @haussamen: Thanks for this important story, @andrewboxford. I hope the @demingheadlight isn't the only newspaper New Mexicans take back from the evil, democracy-killing corporation that is @Gannett. https://twitter.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: I do a fair amount of interviews with journalists who need quotes (and perspective.) This article about what Gannett is doing to its newspapers in New Mexico is the best use of my quotes in years. https://www.sfreporter.com/...
Andrew Oxford / @andrewboxford: America's biggest newspaper chain owns papers across New Mexico There's plenty of news, from the border to a swing congressional race But at some papers, there are no reporters left The damage Gannett has done to local news in a very newsy place: https://www.sfreporter.com/...
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